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                    [Title] => Even Luzonians call it habal-habal
                    [Summary] => 

 I once saw this sign in a small but popular eatery:

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134303 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431352 [AuthorName] => Juanito V. Jabat   [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 813891 [Title] => When I'm sixty four [Summary] =>

I spent my birthday at Chong Hua Hospital two weeks ago. The last time in was confined for a bum stomach due to amoebiasis was over 40 years ago, that’s why hospital owners hate me “wa sila negosyo nako”.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135707 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1661646 [AuthorName] => Raffy T. Uytiepo [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Sports [SectionUrl] => cebu-sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 734900 [Title] => Juvenile delinquency, a continuing dilemma [Summary] =>

The public outcry has grown shrill and sharp in frustration and anger, not only to revisit the Pangilinan version of the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act (RA 9344), but to scrap such version altogether, to stop the juvenile or minor criminals abusing the law.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 543218 [Title] => Cerge Remonde [Summary] => Ilabina dinhi sa Sugbo, naukay ang nasud gumikan sa kalit nga kamatayon ni Press Secretary Cerge Remonde. [DatePublished] => 2010-01-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134484 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1129613 [AuthorName] => Antolin dela Cerna [SectionName] => Banat Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 447495 [Title] => SEC? Securities in Exchange for Commission? [Summary] =>

First of all, allow me to congratulate our dear friend and publisher Mr. Nito Jabat for bagging the Perlas Awards for Journalism.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 365108 [Title] => Thanks, Glenn [Summary] => Do I believe in ghosts and spirits? I don't know. Let me just say, though, that in the office, I am probably one of the few who has not yet been spooked by what some of my officemates would swear are a number of unexplainable apparitions and related phenomenons.

Most of those in the office who, like me, work late into the night, have at one time or another seen or heard typewriter keys (in the old days) or computer keyboards being used by somebody, or something, that they could not see.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359467 [Title] => Ang mga kasakitan ning kalibutan [Summary] => Usa sa mga hinungdan ngano nga usahay ang tawo magduda sa existence ug kaayo sa Ginoo, mao ang daghang mga kasakitan ning kalibutan nga mahiaguman sa tawo matag karon ug unya.

Makapangutana ang tawo nga kon aduna may Ginoo, ug kon puno Siya sa kaluoy, ngano man kono Iya mang itugot ang mga kasakitan, bisan niadtong mga tawo nga unta nagpabiling matinumanon sa Iyang mga sugo.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1129613 [AuthorName] => Antolin dela Cerna [SectionName] => Banat Balita [SectionUrl] => balita [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 354194 [Title] => In defense of the Compostela Municipal Council [Summary] => Instead of being castigated or made fun of, the Compostela MC ought to be commended for their concern over what to them appears as grammatical gaffe of Sun Cellular tv ad, using this blurb: "It's raining outside, aren't they?" Its resolution which got the nod of the Cebu Provincial Board aims to correct it into: "It's raining outside, isn't it?"

The Sun Digitel Telecom VP takes the criticism in stride, albeit belying any aim to promote bad English, but merely a stab at humor to dramatize the common expressions in using the Sun's techno-facilities.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 351230 [Title] => Blessing [Summary] => Bisag unsay kahimtang sa tawo, ma-dato, ma-pobre; ma-employed, ma-un-employed; ma-manager, ma-janitor; ma-pari, ma-sacristan; ma-senador, ma-metro aide; ma-presidente, ma-garbage collector; ma-nurse, ma-doctor; ma-comelec official, ma-botante, o ma-police o ma-vigilante, kitang tanan di gyud kalikay sa problema.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1129613 [AuthorName] => Antolin dela Cerna [SectionName] => Banat Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 287883 [Title] => Nothing and nobody can put a good paper or person down [Summary] => Our post-kudos to The Freeman on its 86th year since its founding in 1919 by the late Don Paulino Gullas. It coincided with another Gullas institution founded by Don Vicente Gullas and Mrs. Josefina R. Gullas also in 1919, the Visayan Institute that later gifted Cebu with its first university.

Except for some snatches of recall that one had an earful, no specific footnotes flashbacked about The Freeman then. As birth "twin" with the UV, their twinning crept into one's subliminal psyche as two inseparable institutions.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
NITO JABAT
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                    [ArticleID] => 820203
                    [Title] => Even Luzonians call it habal-habal
                    [Summary] => 

 I once saw this sign in a small but popular eatery:

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134303 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431352 [AuthorName] => Juanito V. Jabat   [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 813891 [Title] => When I'm sixty four [Summary] =>

I spent my birthday at Chong Hua Hospital two weeks ago. The last time in was confined for a bum stomach due to amoebiasis was over 40 years ago, that’s why hospital owners hate me “wa sila negosyo nako”.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135707 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1661646 [AuthorName] => Raffy T. Uytiepo [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Sports [SectionUrl] => cebu-sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 734900 [Title] => Juvenile delinquency, a continuing dilemma [Summary] =>

The public outcry has grown shrill and sharp in frustration and anger, not only to revisit the Pangilinan version of the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act (RA 9344), but to scrap such version altogether, to stop the juvenile or minor criminals abusing the law.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 543218 [Title] => Cerge Remonde [Summary] => Ilabina dinhi sa Sugbo, naukay ang nasud gumikan sa kalit nga kamatayon ni Press Secretary Cerge Remonde. [DatePublished] => 2010-01-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134484 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1129613 [AuthorName] => Antolin dela Cerna [SectionName] => Banat Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 447495 [Title] => SEC? Securities in Exchange for Commission? [Summary] =>

First of all, allow me to congratulate our dear friend and publisher Mr. Nito Jabat for bagging the Perlas Awards for Journalism.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 365108 [Title] => Thanks, Glenn [Summary] => Do I believe in ghosts and spirits? I don't know. Let me just say, though, that in the office, I am probably one of the few who has not yet been spooked by what some of my officemates would swear are a number of unexplainable apparitions and related phenomenons.

Most of those in the office who, like me, work late into the night, have at one time or another seen or heard typewriter keys (in the old days) or computer keyboards being used by somebody, or something, that they could not see.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359467 [Title] => Ang mga kasakitan ning kalibutan [Summary] => Usa sa mga hinungdan ngano nga usahay ang tawo magduda sa existence ug kaayo sa Ginoo, mao ang daghang mga kasakitan ning kalibutan nga mahiaguman sa tawo matag karon ug unya.

Makapangutana ang tawo nga kon aduna may Ginoo, ug kon puno Siya sa kaluoy, ngano man kono Iya mang itugot ang mga kasakitan, bisan niadtong mga tawo nga unta nagpabiling matinumanon sa Iyang mga sugo.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1129613 [AuthorName] => Antolin dela Cerna [SectionName] => Banat Balita [SectionUrl] => balita [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 354194 [Title] => In defense of the Compostela Municipal Council [Summary] => Instead of being castigated or made fun of, the Compostela MC ought to be commended for their concern over what to them appears as grammatical gaffe of Sun Cellular tv ad, using this blurb: "It's raining outside, aren't they?" Its resolution which got the nod of the Cebu Provincial Board aims to correct it into: "It's raining outside, isn't it?"

The Sun Digitel Telecom VP takes the criticism in stride, albeit belying any aim to promote bad English, but merely a stab at humor to dramatize the common expressions in using the Sun's techno-facilities.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 351230 [Title] => Blessing [Summary] => Bisag unsay kahimtang sa tawo, ma-dato, ma-pobre; ma-employed, ma-un-employed; ma-manager, ma-janitor; ma-pari, ma-sacristan; ma-senador, ma-metro aide; ma-presidente, ma-garbage collector; ma-nurse, ma-doctor; ma-comelec official, ma-botante, o ma-police o ma-vigilante, kitang tanan di gyud kalikay sa problema.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1129613 [AuthorName] => Antolin dela Cerna [SectionName] => Banat Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 287883 [Title] => Nothing and nobody can put a good paper or person down [Summary] => Our post-kudos to The Freeman on its 86th year since its founding in 1919 by the late Don Paulino Gullas. It coincided with another Gullas institution founded by Don Vicente Gullas and Mrs. Josefina R. Gullas also in 1919, the Visayan Institute that later gifted Cebu with its first university.

Except for some snatches of recall that one had an earful, no specific footnotes flashbacked about The Freeman then. As birth "twin" with the UV, their twinning crept into one's subliminal psyche as two inseparable institutions.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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